Article: Study Supports Value of Advanced CT Scans to Check for Clogged Arteries; Catheterization Still Gold Standard, but 64-Row Scanners Now Shown Equally Useful in Diagnosis.

Article: Latest CT scans good for finding heart blockages
The Hindustan Times;  November 5, 2007 ;     417 words ... ... Advanced computed tomography (CT) scans are as reliable and accurate ... study says. Researchers at Johns Hopkins say the newer, 64-slice CT scans, introduced in the US as ... Researchers found that 64-CT scans were 83 percent to 90 percent ...

Article: Study supports value of advanced CT scans to check ...
Heart Disease Weekly;  December 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... computed tomography (CT) scans to diagnose coronary ... researchers at Johns Hopkins reports solid evidence ... more powerful 64-CT scans can easily and ... investigator and Johns Hopkins cardiologist Joao ... D., says 64-CT scans are not a substitute ...

Article: Little Value Seen in CT Scans for Lung Cancer ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ... Computed tomography (CT) scans widely marketed ... lung cancer, a Johns Hopkins study has found ... trial comparing CT scans to chest X-rays ... director of Johns Hopkins' Welch Center ...

Article: Scanning for alternatives; Studies: CT scans might ...
Modern Healthcare;  December 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... using both 64-slice CT scans and cardiovascular catheterization. The study found the CT scans were 93% as precise as ... also indicates 64-slice CT scans failed to diagnose heart ... medicine and radiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ...

Transcript: Analysis: Risks of full-body CT scans for ...
NPR Morning Edition;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... that supposing 50 people had annual CT scans over their lifetimes, one of those ... professor of radiology and oncology at Johns Hopkins, says people aren't likely to ... wary of advertisements for walk-in CT scans. Prof. FISHMAN: I've seen ads ...

Article: CT Scans: A Radioactive Risk
In These Times;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Computed tomography (CT) scans take multiple X-ray ... Sciences. Of course, many CT scans are well worth the risk ... radiology and oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, told the New ... Center assessed annual CT scans for smokers and former ...

Article: CT scans replacing treadmill stress test.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  October 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... those with inward bulges. CT scans can see the outward bulges ... aggressive in treating it." CT scans have another advantage ... question the value of CT scans for heart disease. Dr ... preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins University, said angiograms ...